Hi Joshua,
> a) Black-on-white. I tend to agree that this is preferred.
at least a minimum of contrast is helpful.
I personally would be quite happy with dark blue on
white, or with black on light grey. But black and
white will likely be most easy to accept for all
users.
There is no need to be different without a purpose.
> b) Side-menu listing important stuff seperate from text
> rather than having the menu integrated from the text.
> I like this, but I'm not sure how much it is about the
> "cool" factor. It also leads to the obvious disadvantage
> of having to put the whole darn page in a table, which
> is annoying but very common for modern sites.
I strongly encourage you to visit
http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/browser.htm
with a _modern_ browser (i. e. Mozilla or Opera 6)
and scroll down the page.
Even with M$IE and Netscape 4 it will look like it
were a table. But it is no table ... and no frames
either, although it will feel like frames in Mozilla.
It is just CSS, and even good old Netscape 4 under-
stands enough of it to support this effect well enough.
The CSS code is inside the file (I use SSI for this),
and no, it was _not_ me who created it, but it is not
really difficult to understand once you know what you
want to get.
This is what I would consider to be "cool".
(Thus I asked for it, and some CSS freaks explained
me how to do it. ;-)
> c) Smaller font. As I mentioned in the original discussion,
> smaller fonts tend to look more modern and professional,
> since almost all major websites now use a less-than-default
> font size. Of course, it is silly to contradict what the
> user set as their default font, but since almost all sites
> do it, <small> can almost be considered the default.
Just because of this, competent users will tend to use
Mozilla or Opera, which both allow you to override font
sizes by zooming with a single keystroke.
Only M$IE cannot zoom, and only if px font sizes are
being used.
If you use relative sizes (anything but px), even M$IE
will allow five zoom levels from a menu selection.
So choose a font as you like, I will do the same. ;-)
Regards, Michael
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